The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v1.c8.s13.36

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It is not to be supposed that Buddhism was confined only to the places mentioned above. A record in the Chanda District shows that a local king named Sūryaghosha had the misfortune to have his son killed by an accidental fall from the palace.⁴ He decided to commemorate his memory by erecting a temple in honour of the Buddha. It is thus sufficiently clear that Buddhism must have found adherents in many individuals scattered all over the kingdom, though no sufficient inscriptions or other evidence has survived to our time to substantiate this statement.